For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol.

For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes.

Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.

The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.

I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would induce major side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I'm particularly susceptible.

Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.

I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.